The Four Temperaments: A Fun and Practical Guide to Understanding Yourself and the People in Your Life

Like Renee Baron, I came to the study of temperaments through the Enneagram and then through the Myers-Briggs system. For my purposes as a college professor, I find Temperament studies to be far more helpful than the other two systems. A number of excellent books exist on the temperaments, such as Keirsey's, Linda Beren's, and the True Colors books, but Renee Baron's book is the best I've studied. It is simple enough for beginners and detailed enough for professions. Ms Baron's categories include childhood patterns, relationship patterns and occupational patterns, each discussed with depth and thoroughness. Overall, this is the best book on the subject.

Temperaments have been a favorite study of mine. Ms. Renee Baron's "The Four Temperaments" is a book I would highly recomment to anyone new or experienced with the topic of temperaments because she goes right to the core of what you're more or less looking for without including all the New Age junk science, such as attempting to corelate temperaments and astrology. I've always identified myself as phlegmatic or an Ideal Seeker, the term Ms. Baron uses. And wonder upon wonder, she amazes me at the insightful, time tested truths of the temperaments as, line by line, I exclaim, "That's me!" "That's how I relate!" "That's how I feel, I am!" This has become my favorite for giving to friends as well. Its simple, fun, accurate and less complicated than a full fledge, complicate study of the make up of the temperaments, providing thoughtful information and workable advice on how best we, people of one temperament or another can get along, be supportive of and nonjudgmental towards other human beings ... of another or similar temperament. This has been the most eye awakening study of my life. Ms. Baron, had I known it then, would have saved me lots of time and trouble searching for needles in haystacks.